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Music from the Ballet Cinderella by Prokofiev, Neeme Jarvi and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. It don't get better than that, folks.

Griffes' Poem for Flute and Orchestra has the flute end the piece all alone.

Glazunov's Karelian Legend ends with a single flute mimicking a bird.

The introduction of the 1st mvmt. of Schubert's Symphony No. 8 has huge meaning. It's a dark statement of the main theme with the cellos/basses to set the black tone of the entire movement. Everything grows out of that one statement, as the higher strings come in softly with a new steady rhythm. It'...

Prokofiev- Romeo & Juliet, Full Score <3

Cleveland Orchestra, Lorin Maazel conducting

I'm open to talk... Good place to start. :) As for me, I have listened to almost his entire oeuvre, except for chamber music and some piano pieces. But it's hard to explain why I like Glazunov so much except I like his attitude toward his subject. Perhaps it's because I lacked prejudice to begin wi...

[quote="perlnerd666" <flame>I HATE Glazunov. It's watery, unoriginal, mechanical, and wholly sterile (the Violin concerto is OK, I suppose)[/quote]

Au contraire! I see more than you do, much more. But it's no use talking about it.

Anyone here heard of the Mystic chord, created by Scriabin?



It's almost 3 different tritones stacked on each other, but the top interval is only a perfect 4th.

I'm a new person here, but I think this could be an interesting subject. My favorite: (chord can go in any key, but I'll choose example) bdimM7. Exquisitely romantic, rather dissonant suspension that resolves to a fully diminished chord. Very often used in Russian romantic music. Spelled out example...

Overrated: STRAVINSKY. Just because you're new doesn't mean you're improved. ;) Rossini and Tchaikovsky are WAY overused. Mahler is beginning to be overdone, not on the radio, but in Concert halls. Same with Shostakovich. Well, I joined this forum to stand up for something, and hopefully I'll be sup...

Yes!

Currently, I'm casually reading Anna Karenina by Tolstoy (that is, I pick it up every few weeks and read a tiny fraction). It is an amazing story.

Children's March for Band by Grainger is like a big crescendo and decrescendo. Now that think of it, "In the Steppes of Central Asia" is similar (someone may have mentioned it before). What both have in common is they are depicting the coming and passing of people.